Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla Langsdorffii Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 557. Holotype: MNHNP 4634, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 21. Type locality: "Brésil"; "provàvelmente baixada fluminense" according to Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 53.

Hypsiboas langsdorffii — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30.

Hyla (Centrotelma) langsdorfii — Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 101. [source (and spelling) Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 98, who considered that Burmeister had provided the name Centrotelma langsdorfii.]

Hyla langsdorfii — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 98. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Osteocephalus langsdorffii — Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 200.

Hyla langsdorffii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 365.

Itapotihyla langsdorffii — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 109.

English Names

Ocellated Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Atlantic forests from central and eastern Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil; isolated population in eastern Paraguay and adjacent Brazil and northeastern Argentina.

Comment

See Duellman and Crump, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 23: 20, for generic allocation. Argentinian records of Hyla pardalis were referred to this taxon by Carrizo, 1991 "1990", Cuad. Herpetol., 5: 32-39. See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 283-284. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 53, provided a brief account and photo. Lingnau, Zank, Colombo, and Vinciprova, 2006, Check List, 2(1): 38-39, discussed the range and provided records for Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Arzabe and Loebmann, 2006, Check List, 2(2): 33-34, provided a record for Sergipe (state), Brazil, and noted earlier literature on distribution. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 10, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Kleinsorge, Fonseca, Pirani, and Nascimento, 2009, Check List, 5: 876-878, discussed the range, provided a range extension from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and noted a correction to the georeference data for a previous extension. Silva, Ferreira, Santos, and Feio, 2011, Check List, 7: 128-130, provided new reocrds for Minas Gerais and discussed the range. Cazelli and Moura, 2012, Check List, 8: 510-512, provided a record for Minas Gerais, and mapped the range.

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